While watching the BBC News Channel this morning I heard Gavin Esler reading the news about the upcoming Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election and describing its ex-MP Tristram Hunt, without verbal quotation marks, as a Labour "moderate" - an interesting label for the BBC to apply, given that it naturally implies that the Jeremy Corbyn wing of the Labour Party is not moderate - i.e. extreme...
...something it's fine for us to say, but surely not for the BBC to suggest?
...something it's fine for us to say, but surely not for the BBC to suggest?
Send it to Media lens, stat.
ReplyDeleteMind you, that may just pop a bonus track in the 'balance' album.
I bet they've already got it.
Deletein BBC-speak, "moderate" means "one of us".
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